Hello again!
I have a question regarding units in my regiment, especifically pikemen. How can I have more? I want to declare war on the Il Khanate, but I'll require lots of pikemen and my regiments have none. On the province window, it says that increasing the power of burghers, my regiment will hold more archers and pikemen, and increasing the power of clergy will hold more light cavalry and heavy infantry. Because light infantry is weak, I gave peasants 0% powerr, and because heavy armored units are pasture for horse archers, I also gave nobles 0% power to avoid knights, and split power between burghers 70% (pikemen and archers, both useful) and clergy 30% (light cavalry useful, heavy infantry useless). This seemed logical, no? Besides, I changed the law to popular law, because it says my regiments will tend to be light with emphasis on archers and pikemen.
It worked very well, the regiments' composition was exactly as I wanted. The problem was, my vassals complained all the time about my heavy hand, and the choices were to ignore them and lose prestige, or change to feudal contract. I always ignored them, and my prestige was dropping very fast. In the end I changed laws, but not to feudal, as it would emphasize knights, but traditional custom. The description says in traditional law my regiments will be very mixed with few knights. Well, they certainly don't have any knights, but they also have light infantry, and worst, they have no pikemen! Not a single one. Why is that so? The burgher-clergy powers are still 70%-30%, and peasants, burghers, clergy and nobles all have a loyalty of 100%.
So, is there a way to avoid light infantry and provide more pikemen, other than go with popular law?
Playing Deus Vult, 2.1 beta.
I have a question regarding units in my regiment, especifically pikemen. How can I have more? I want to declare war on the Il Khanate, but I'll require lots of pikemen and my regiments have none. On the province window, it says that increasing the power of burghers, my regiment will hold more archers and pikemen, and increasing the power of clergy will hold more light cavalry and heavy infantry. Because light infantry is weak, I gave peasants 0% powerr, and because heavy armored units are pasture for horse archers, I also gave nobles 0% power to avoid knights, and split power between burghers 70% (pikemen and archers, both useful) and clergy 30% (light cavalry useful, heavy infantry useless). This seemed logical, no? Besides, I changed the law to popular law, because it says my regiments will tend to be light with emphasis on archers and pikemen.
It worked very well, the regiments' composition was exactly as I wanted. The problem was, my vassals complained all the time about my heavy hand, and the choices were to ignore them and lose prestige, or change to feudal contract. I always ignored them, and my prestige was dropping very fast. In the end I changed laws, but not to feudal, as it would emphasize knights, but traditional custom. The description says in traditional law my regiments will be very mixed with few knights. Well, they certainly don't have any knights, but they also have light infantry, and worst, they have no pikemen! Not a single one. Why is that so? The burgher-clergy powers are still 70%-30%, and peasants, burghers, clergy and nobles all have a loyalty of 100%.
So, is there a way to avoid light infantry and provide more pikemen, other than go with popular law?
Playing Deus Vult, 2.1 beta.